What Labshake does

Labshake is a privately held, Washington-incorporated technology platform that serves biomedical researchers and laboratory suppliers through three interconnected products. Mylab provides free laboratory management functionality for organizing lab members, inventories, shared resources, and protocols. Search is a literature discovery engine built on the bioRxiv preprint server's citation graph, indexing over 2.3 million citations to help researchers surface relevant work. Marketplace is a hosting platform on which scientific suppliers can list and surface products to the research community, with 1,000+ suppliers and 2.5 million+ products reportedly catalogued.

The platform reports an operational user base of 4,100+ laboratories and 12,000+ users, supported by 130,000+ inventories, 4,700+ shared resources, and 1,000+ protocols. The three products are designed to interoperate: researchers on Mylab generate demand-side activity that flows into Marketplace, supplier-side inventory feeds back into researcher workflows, and the bioRxiv citation dataset functions as a shared bibliographic layer across Search and adjacent discovery surfaces.

Labshake's business model is not clearly disclosed in the available data. All three products appear to be offered free of charge with no published pricing tiers, paid plans, or revenue mechanics. No management team, funding history, partnership announcements, or acquisition activity is disclosed. The absence of disclosed monetization, combined with the operational scale reported, suggests the company is either in a user-acquisition phase prior to monetization, operating an undisclosed alternative-revenue model (for example supplier listing fees or referral economics), or is sustained by undisclosed capital — none of which can be confirmed from the input.

Name

Labshake

Legal name

Labshake LLC

Website

https://labshake.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Labshake is a free platform for biomedical researchers and laboratory suppliers, offering Mylab for lab management, a bioRxiv-citation-based literature search engine, and a supplier product Marketplace serving 1,000+ suppliers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Scientific Lab Management Software

akta.pro primary industry

Lab Automation, Instrument Control & Workflow Orchestration Software (HLAGAJAG)

Keywords

• Lab management software
• Biomedical product search
• Scientific marketplace
• Lab inventory management
• Research lab operations

Headquarters

HQ city

Sunnyvale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Mylab Platform: Free platform for researchers; no direct revenue from end users. Labs manage inventory, schedule resources, and share protocols at no cost.
2. Supplier Product Hosting: Biomedical suppliers host products free of charge on Labshake Marketplace and Search. Revenue model not explicitly disclosed but appears to offer expanded reach as value exchange.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Labshake provides a free, cloud-based lab management platform (Mylab) that enables biomedical research labs to track inventory, schedule shared equipment and resources, and share protocols, alongside a citation-ranked product search engine (Labshake Search) and a marketplace (Labshake Marketplace) where 1,000+ biomedical suppliers host 2,508,000+ products for discovery by researchers.

Product overview

Labshake is a platform for biomedical researchers and suppliers consisting of three core products: Labshake Mylab (a free online lab management platform for inventory, scheduling, and protocols), Labshake Search (a citation-based product search engine), and Labshake Marketplace (a product hosting platform). Mylab integrates with Google Calendar for optional reservation syncing, while Marketplace products appear in Search results and are accessible to Mylab inventory management users.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Labshake Mylab: A free online lab management platform for labs to manage inventory, schedule shared resource/equipment, and share lab protocols. Currently hosting 4,100+ labs, 12,000+ users, 130,000+ inventories, 4,700+ shared resources, 1,000+ lab protocols.
• Labshake Search
• Labshake Marketplace

Named customers9 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature5 records

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• LabArchives: Electronic lab notebook and lab management platform widely used in academic and biomedical research labs. Closely comparable to Labshake Mylab in target customer (research labs), workflow scope (inventory, protocols, scheduling), and freemium academic pricing.
• Quartzy: Lab management platform focused on inventory management, ordering, and resource scheduling for academic and industry labs. Directly comparable to Labshake Mylab's inventory and shared resource modules, with a similar freemium GTM.
• eLabFTW: Open-source electronic lab notebook with inventory and experiments modules widely used in academic research labs. Comparable to Labshake Mylab on workflow scope and target segment, with a similar free/cheap academic positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Benchling: Cloud-based life sciences R&D platform offering ELN, LIMS, and molecular biology tools. Comparable to Labshake as a software platform for biomedical researchers, but with a much broader product portfolio and enterprise focus.
• LabWare: Enterprise LIMS and ELN vendor serving regulated and industrial laboratories. Overlaps with Labshake in lab information management functionality but targets larger, regulated customers with on-prem/hybrid deployments.
• LabVantage: Enterprise LIMS platform with broad lab informatics capabilities across pharma, food, and clinical labs. Comparable to Labshake's lab management positioning but serving much larger enterprise customers.
• Dotmatics: Scientific informatics platform for R&D including ELN, LIMS, and data analysis for life sciences and materials science. Comparable to Labshake in serving biomedical R&D labs but with a much broader enterprise product suite.

Emerging players

• SciNote: Cloud-based electronic lab notebook with inventory and protocol management for academic and biotech labs. Comparable to Labshake Mylab in target customer and workflow scope, with a freemium academic tier.
• Zageno: Marketplace for life science research products that helps researchers compare and order supplies from multiple suppliers. Directly comparable to Labshake Marketplace as a biomedical supplier marketplace.
• Addgene: Nonprofit plasmid repository serving biomedical researchers with a community-led distribution model. Comparable to Labshake in serving the biomedical research community with a free, network-effect-driven platform.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Labshake